"The history of youth work in Europe and its relevance for today's youth work policy"- 3rd workshop
"The history of youth work in Europe and its relevance for today's youth work policy" - 3rd workshop
4th to 7th October 2011 in Tallin (Estonia)
Agenda
Tuesday, 04 October 2011
- Late afternoon session, followed by a welcoming reception at the House of Brotherhood of Blackheads.
- Welcome by Head of Estonian MoER Youth Policy division, Anne Kivimäe
- Introduction and presentation of the programme by Jan Vanhee and Hanjo Schild
- Filip Coussee: Lessons learned from the past: Workshops I and II and the Ghent conference on History of Youth Work
- Kristina Mänd: Youth work and its place in the Third Sector
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
- Morning session
- Edgar Schlümmer: The History of Youth Work in Estonia
- Juha Nieminen: The History of Youth Work in Finland
- Chair: Howard Williamson
- Afternoon session
- Torbjorn Forkby: The History of Youth Work in Sweden
- Ralph Schroeder: The History of Youth Work in Luxembourg
- Chair: Arturas Deltuva
- Dinner and non-formal activity
Thursday, 06 October 2011
- Morning session
- Jorge Orlando: The History of Youth Work in Portugal
- Sorin Mitulescu: The History of Youth Work in Romania
- Dora Giannaki: The History of Youth Work in Greece
- Chair: Leena Suurpäa
- Afternoon session
- Arturas Deltuva: The History of Youth Work in Lithuania
- Areg Tadevosyan: The History of Youth Work in Armenia
- Chair: Lasse Siurala
- Dinner and non-formal activity
Friday, 07 October 2011
- Morning session
- Conclusions, summing up, follow up
- Howard Williamson: first summary by rapporteur
- NN: reflections from the Estonian Ministry
- Discussion: Lessons for future - conceptional development and recognition of youth work
- Chairs: Jan Vanhee and Hanjo Schild
- Conclusions, summing up, follow up
Edited by Filip Coussée, Griet Verschelden, Tineke Van de Walle, Marta Mędlińska and Howard Williamson
Council of Europe, September 2010. ISBN 978-92-871-6824-5
Youth work starts where young people are. It is perhaps this general principle that seems to create a certain 'myopic view' in youth work practice, policy and research. We tend to concentrate on the questions of today and take them as a starting point for our future plans. This sometimes makes youth work an uncertain and fragile practice. The lack of historical consciousness makes youth work vulnerable to instrumentalisation, whether by policymakers or even by young people themselves, claiming youth work should fulfil the needs they define to be urgent and relevant.
Youth work is a contingent practice and history will not reveal to us its one and only real identity. Knowing where we come from, however, is an important step in establishing a confident, though not arrogant, identity. Youth work is a social and pedagogical practice that must be adapted to very diverse historical, geographic and social contexts, but there are still some underlying, basic assumptions that have structured practices and policies to date and continue to do so. In this light, a cross-cultural and transnational perspective can be most enlightening.
This second volume of The history of youth work in Europe, presents the youth work histories of some very different countries: Belgium and its three communities, the Netherlands, Ireland, Wales and Hungary. The reader is also introduced to the history of the relatively young European youth policies, and is even given a glimpse beyond European borders with a history of youth work in South Africa.